Paint applicator



Sept. 2, 1969 J. PALMERI 3,464,079

PAINT APPLIGATOR Filed March 21, '1968 INVENTOR. JOSEPH PALMER! ATTORNEY United States Patent M 3,464,079 PAINT APPLICATOR Joseph Palmer-i, 720-28 Crescent St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11208 Filed Mar. 21, 1968, Ser. No. 714,915 Int. Cl. A46b 15/00; B44d 3/28 US. Cl. 15-235 7 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Description of the invention The present invention relates to a paint applicator. More particularly, the invention relates to a paint applicator for applying paint to surfaces which are difficult or impossible to paint with an ordinary paint brush or roller.

Iron railings are difiicult to paint efficiently and rapidly with :a brush or roller. This is especially true of ornamental iron work which includes several sections of curvilinear configuration. The curilinear sections may be of general S-shape with spirals at each end of the S, or said sections may be of closed or open circle configuration. It is impossible to paint iron Work of the aforedescribed type with a roller. When such iron work is painted with a brush, the process is slow, tedious and ineflicient. The paint drips on the uudersurfaces so that there are drops of paint thereon after the painting is completed. The tediousness, inef ficiency and poor quality of the finished work are due pri' marily to the inaccessibility of many of the surfaces of the railings.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved paint applicator.

An object of the present invention is to provide a paint applicator for painting inaccessible surfaces with rapidity, efficiency, facility and good quality results.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a paint applicator for painting ornamental iron work with rapidity, efficiency, facility and good quality results.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a paint applicator which is of simple structure, inexpensive to manufacture and sturdy and strong.

Still another object of the present invention is to provide -a paint applicator which is readily utilizable by skilled and unskilled painters with facility, rapidity, efiiciency and good quality results.

In accordance with the present invention, a paint applicator comprises a pair of sides adjoining each other along a longitudinally extending line to form a substantially dihedral back. Each of the sides has an inside surface and an outside surface. One of the sides has an extending portion in the longitudinal direction extending beyond the conresponding end of the other of the sides. Paint applying material is affixed to the inside surfaces of the sides and to the inside and outside surfaces of the extending portion. A handle is affixed to and extends from one of the sides.

The paint applying material consists essentially of mohair or mouton fur nap. The back formed by the sides has a substantially L-shaped cross-sectional configuration.

3,464,079 Patented Sept. 2, 1969 The extending portion has a width which is less than the width of the one of the sides and an outer edge which is covered by the fur nap. The handle is :aflixed to the one of the sides having the extending portion. A rubber-like material may be cemented to the inside surfaces of the sides and the mohair is then cemented to the inside surfaces of the rubber-like material and to the inside and outside surfaces of the extending portion.

In order that the present invention may be readily carried into effect, it will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:

FIG. 1 is a top view of the paint applicator of the present invention as it appears in use on ornamental iron work;

1 FIG. 2 is a view, taken along the lines II-II, of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a sectional view, taken along the lines III III, of FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the paint applicator of the present invention prior to use in painting a curvilinear section of ornamental iron work; and

FIG. 5 is a view, partly in section, taken along the lines V-V of FIG. 4.

In the figures, the same components are identified by the same reference numerals.

The paint applicator of the present invention has a back of substantially L-shaped cross-sectional configurat1on having a first side 11 of substantially planar configuratlon and a second side 12 of substantially planar configuration bent at right angles to said first side. The back 11, 12 of the paint applicator thus comprises a substantially rectangular dihedral.

The sides 11 and 12 of the back comprise any suitable material such as, for example, aluminum, tin, plastic, wood, and the like. The back 11, 12 is preferably a single sheet of material bent along a longitudinally extending line to form a dihedral having the substantially planar sides 11 and 12 which extend from such line.

A handle 13 of any suitable type is afiixed at one end to the central area of the side 11 of the back 11, 12 by any suitable means such as, for example, socket, rivet, nail, wood screw, nut and bolt, or the like. In FIGS. 3 and 5, the handle 13 is shown aflixed to the side 11 by an elongated member 14 of any suitable type, threaded or unthreaded, which extends from said handle, passes through an aperture formed through said side and has a head, nut, or the like 15 :affixed thereto at its free end beyond said side. The handle 13 comprises any suitable material such as, for example, wood, plastic, or the like. The member 14 is preferably threaded at one end, firmly affixed to the handle 13 at its other end and threadedly coupled in an internally threaded aperture through the side 11.

A paint applying lining 16 is suitably afiixed to the inside surfaces of the sides 11 and 12 of the back. The paint applying lining 16 may comprise any suitable paint applying material such as, for example, natural or artificial bristles or nap, although it preferably comprises mouton fur.

The paint applying lining 16 is not confined to the inside surfaces of the sides 11 and 12 of the back, but extends beyond the edges of said sides. In accordance with the present invention, one of the sides 11 and 12 of the back is longer than the other, so that the portion thereof which is longer than the other forms an extension, projection or extending arm or portion 17. If the extending portion 17 extends from the side 11, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 and 5, then said side is longer than the side 12 by the length of said extending portion. If the extending portion extends from the side 12 (not shown in the figures), then said side is longer than the side 11 by the length of said extending portion.

In accordance with the present invention, the paint applying lining 16 is suitably affixed to both substantially planar surfaces and around the farthest extending edge 18 of the extending portion 17 of the side '11 (FIGS. 2, 4 and 5) or the extending portion of the other side (not shown in the figures).

The paint applying lining 16 is affixed to the sides 11 and 12 of the back, the side 11 including its extending portion 17, by any suitable means such as, for example, an adhesive, staples, clips, or the like. In the disclosed example of the paint applicator of the present invention, the paint applying lining 16 is cemented to a rubber or rubber-like material 19, which in turn is cemented to the inside surface of each of the sides 11 and 12 and of the extending portion 17 of the side 11 (FIGS. 3 and 5).

To utilize the paint applicator of the present invention, the user grasps or holds the handle 13 in his hand and, after providing sufiicient paint on the paint applying lining 16, moves said applicator longitudinally along a rail portion 21 (FIGS. 1, 2 and 3) with the lining on the side 11 abutting one surface of said rail portion and the lining on the side 12 abutting an adjoining surface of said rail portion. The paint is thereby simultaneously applied to two surfaces of the rail portion 21 with rapidity, facility, effi' ciency, neatness and good quality results.

In order to paint an inaccessible surface such as, for example, the inside surface 22 of a curvilinear portion 23 (FIG. 4), the extending portion 17 is moved into proximity with said curvilinear portion so that the paint applying lining 16 thereon abuts said surface (FIG. 5). The paint is thereby simultaneously applied to the entire surface 22 or to a substantial portion of said surface with rapidity, facility, efficiency, neatness and good quality results. The applicator may be readily moved about the axis of the curvilinear portion or in a circular path, with the paint applying lining 16 on the extending portion 17 in abutment with the surface 22.

The curvilinear portion 23 has outer surfaces 24 and 25 (FIGS. 4 and 5) which may be painted, to the same advantage as the other surfaces, by abutment of the paint applying lining 16 on the extending portion 17 with said outer surfaces.

The width dimension of the extending portion 17 of the side 11 is preferably smaller than that of said side (FIG. 1), so that said extending portion may fit into the area surounded by a curvilinear portion such as, for example, a portion 26 of FIG. 1. The extending portion 17 may thus be made very narrow and may even be of rodlike configuration.

What I claim is:

1. A paint applicator comprising a pair of sides adjoining each other along a longitudinally extending line to form a substantially dihedral back, each of said sides having an inside surface and an outside surface, one of said sides having an extending portion in the longitudinal direction extending beyond the corresponding end of the other of said sides;

paint applying material consisting essentially of fur nap aflixed to the inside surfaces of said sides and to the inside and outside surfaces of said extending portion; and

handle means affixed to and extending from one of said sides, the back formed by said sides having a substantially L-shaped cross-sectional configuration.

2. A paint applicator as claimed in claim '1, 'wherein said extending portion has a width which is less than the width of said one of said sides and an outer edge, said outer edge being covered by said paint applying material.

3. A paint applicator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said handle means is afi'ixed to and extends from said one of said sides having said extending portion.

4. A paint applicator as claimed in claim 3, wherein said paint applying material comprises mouton and said extending portion has a width which is less than the width of said one of said sides and an outer edge, said outer said outer edge being covered by said mouton.

5. A paint applicator as claimed in claim 3, further comprising rubber-like material cemented to the inside of said sides, and wherein said paint applying material comprises mouton secured to the inside surfaces of said rubber-like material and to the inside and outside surfaces of said extending portion.

6. A paint applicator as claimed in claim 5 wherein said extending portion has a width which is less than the width of said one of said sides and an outer edge, saide outer edge being covered by said mouton.

7. A paint applicator as claimed in claim 1, wherein said handle means is afiixed to and extends from said one of said sides having said extending portion, and said fur applying means comprises mouton.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,635,127 7/1927 Kirsner 15210 2,068,001 l/l937 Barnes l5ll8 XR 2,604,651 7/1952 Crippen 15--235 FOREIGN PATENTS 1,472,611 1/ 1967 France.

DANIEL BLUM, Primary Examiner US. Cl. X.R. 15-118, 210 

